MOVING PICTURES

I have always worked in the sphere of non-semantic language. As an author, I seek to liberate form beyond meaning and symbolic tradition. Moving Pictures is the most extreme and at the same time most characteristic project from my latest concern: to achieve, through the exercise of contemplation, a window on our experience with the world and to exempt ourselves from the subjectivising imposition of images.

Moving Pictures is a system that gives the image the status of tool, of cultural artefact. It is an exercise in which I rescue the protoconstructivist concept of search for the truth through natural light, the philosophical explanation of how reason, without resorting to the help of other meanings or basing arguments on the authority given to classical thinkers or other stories, provides us with the possibility of seeking and finding truth without the need for lights other than our own: the freedom of thinking and of existing. The profound, forgotten idea of Descartes is in keeping with my task in times in which society suffers from visual saturation and an excess of information, thus requiring the singularity proposed.

This great work presents an ironic evolution towards large canvases in the era of algorithmic reproducibility, recalling masterpieces of pictorial expression, worked from an autopoietic computational abstraction of infinite solution, whose materiality comes from a system that expands, collapses and rebalances. Its passing is a constant search, a personal process I share with visitors in these paintings in movement, canvases in constant change. Sometimes in the privacy of observation, I coincide with the brushstroke of Monet and sometimes with the grandeur of Turner, but I also occasionally find the light of Zobel. It is my private adventure towards a great passion: painting. I invite you to a psychoanalytic approach based on chance and dreams, which navigates an irrational enigma in the field of the no-mind and imagination.

This “second nature”, of digital materiality, develops before us as an almost unexplored but everyday layer and its generativity is (or could be) a way for art to deal with this brave post-human world that is upon us.